Bella is Sealed!

Subtitled – “Mine!  Mine!  Mine!”

Bella is ours.  Totally and completely!  On Friday the 26th of November we took her to the House of our God and through the Sealing power of the Priesthood of our God she was joined to our family for time and all eternity.  I can’t type this without teary up.  Arabella Michele Hope Turpin is ours.  She is mine – forever!

All those times she has been critical or trying to die…..  All of those worries…….  All of the long, sleepless nights……All of the forms and people we have to deal with………All of the pain of wondering how long she has to suffer……All of the everything……….and she wasn’t mine.  Not 100%.  Not until the temple. 

As I knelt at that alter and the Elder Hilton joined her to our family, it all hit me for a split second.  All of those emotions – the worry, the fear, the doubt – and then she started to blow kisses.  Right there on the alter while she was being sealed.  With her sisters in front of her and her Mama and Daddy beside her.  And her Grandparents and Uncles and Aunts around her, she blew kisses.  Oh Bella!  How like you!

When some people find out about our sweet Bella, they feel sorry for us or they think we are saints.  How wrong they are!  We are of all people the most blessed! We have Bella.  She is an amazing, loving, courageous, and beautiful soul.  I love you Bella.  I so look forward to our next life together.  I have a feeling that those that see Bella as disabled or handicapped will be blown away when they can see her for who she is – the beauty of that eternal soul.  I love you Arabella.  And welcome to our family forever!